Ya know… it occurs to me: if one my Republican Senators were to suddenly get a backbone and say “enough” to the Trump administration in a serious way (e.g., not talk one way and vote another like that guy from Nebraska did a few years ago), I might actually switch party registration just so I can support him in the primary.
Just thinking out loud.
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Unless they change the primary rules in NC, one of the biggest benefits of being registered independent is that it’s not actually necessary to switch affiliations to vote tactically in whichever party’s primary one wishes.
More often than not, I’d usually choose the GOP primary ballot to vote up the more lunatic candidate on offer through to the general to hopefully be sent packing! Worked a treat in the governor’s race this past election… 😉
Still get tonnes of spam in the post and tect regardless of affiliation, though… 😦
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Yeah, I just feel like voting for the worst in the primary is playing way too much with fire these days.
I have a similar worry about RCV, if we ever get there. If everybody votes for the lunatic populist because they all think nobody else will, we could wind up with the lunatic populist after the first round.
Ditto protest votes, etc. etc. Votes are not toys.
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Unfortunately, I’m rather between Scylla and Charybdis with recent ballots…the best I can seem to hope for amongst the candidates is a knave on offer rather than a flaming lunatic.
Since I got the vote in 1988, there’s been precious few candidates of such genuine quality on the ballot that I could vote for unreservedly and without hesitation that I can name them all with the fingers on one hand and still have fingers left over.
Fortunately, this year I had such a one as I was truly approaching despair as to whether I’d ever see one again…Jeff Jackson for AG.
Tactical voting was very effective for me (or if I’m really honest, my usual tendency to be an electoral jinx and kiss of death to whoever I vote for!) but when we’re in an environment of such polarised politics where actual provable fact is of no interest or use to a majority of a largely willfully ignorant electorate…I don’t really see where there’s any way we can vote that doesn’t end up in the same way as November.
A convicted felon being bought the White House by the same individual who is arguably the real president that is now running roughshod over every aspect of our government whilst likely tapping Treasury to line his pockets even more than he’s already doing suggests that maybe the current system isn’t fit for purpose anymore. 😦
That being said, I’m thinking that if Thom Tillis doesn’t hate me for the last letter he got when he enabled Roe’s demise, he’s really going to hate the next two years at least where hopefully the midterms can finally allow us to tell those toddlers in the executive *NO!* and actually make it happen.
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Yeah, hoping for reasonable Republicans is kind of a hope against hope. That sucks. I hope he turned out better than his opponents would have, but it sounds pretty bad, no matter what.
I’m not really expecting to have to deliver on this “promise”, but if we get to a “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” moment, I might feel obligated to.
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